Thus closes my notes for the month of December and also for the year just passed and gone and now numbered with the things that were. Whether the Almighty will spare me to chronicle the daily events of the incoming year is more than I know but trusting in Him I shall enter upon the pleasing task, which is useful as a reference and may be profitable to those who have an interest in me.

Friday, August 2, 2013

To day I remained at home reading. Sam [Samuel Houston Sharp] went fishing and had good luck. Pet [Florence Mahala Hall], Conney and Jemima were all taken with the fever again. I am satisfied that it is the influence of the mill pond that produces so much sickness in my family. weather clear and hot. Ther: 93°.

Sesquicentennial

In the year 1860, James Madison Hall sat down to pen a few lines in a journal, and thus began a project that would continue on an almost daily basis until his death almost 7 years later. On the 150th anniversary of the beginning of that journey -- 16th January 2010 -- J.M. Hall's writings began appearing on this blog on a (hopefully) daily basis.